A bridge was first completed here in 1887, replaced by another structure in 1949, and subsequently replaced with the current bridge which was completed in 2008.

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, during the first half of 2008, cash remittances sent back to Armenia by Armenians working abroad rose by 57. 5 percent and totaled $ 668. 6 million USD, equivalent to 15 percent of the country's first-half Gross Domestic Product.

According to RFE / RL, comparable sums are believed to be transferred through non-bank systems, implying that cash remittances make up approximately 30 percent of Armenia's GDP in the first half of 2008.

During the first half of 2008, Armenia's widening current-account trade deficit grew by 66 percent to $ 1. 39 billion USD, with a 40 percent rise in imports.

Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.

The Armenian government collected 383. 5 billion drams ($ 1. 26 billion ) in various taxes in the first nine months of 2008 ( a 33. 2 percent increase from the same period last year ).

On September 11, 2008, a United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster III successfully completed the first landing in Antarctica using night-vision goggles at Pegasus Field.

* 2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.

* 1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.

The campaign by the name ' Tree Day-Plant Your Future ' was first organized on 12 March 2008, when an official non-working day was declared and more than 150, 000 Macedonians planted 2 million trees in one day ( symbolically, one for each citizen ).

Since the start of the 2008 season, the Falcons have recorded four consecutive winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

The Falcons have qualified for the playoffs three times ( 2008, 2010 and 2011 ) during this period, but lost all three in the first round

On December 21, 2008, Atlanta beat the Minnesota Vikings 24 – 17 to clinch a wild card spot, earning a trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2004.

In April 2008, Vice President Lt. Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama ( Ian Khama ), son of Seretse Khama the first president, succeeded to the presidency when Festus Mogae retired.

In 2008, he provided a foreword for the first book collection of Richard Thompson's Cul De Sac comic strip.

This reaction was studied for the first time in 2008 by the team at RIKEN, Japan, in order to study the decay properties of < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh, which is a decay product in their claimed decay chains of ununtrium .< ref > The decay of < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh by the emission of 9. 05-9. 23 MeV alpha particles was further confirmed in 2010.

A second edition of Bunnies & Burrows was printed in 1982 by Fantasy Games Unlimited, although the continuing popularity of the first edition is evidenced by how it was still being actively played in 2008.

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry ", became a catchphrase the world over ( the phrase was used again, first in Ang Lee's Hulk ( 2003 ), although in Spanish, and again in the 2008 movie The Incredible Hulk, with an altered version in Portuguese ).

On 28 September 2008, the CSU failed to gain an absolute majority, attaining 43 %, of the vote in the Bavaria state election for the first time since 1966 on a percentage basis and was forced into a coalition with the FDP.

As an example of this process, in 2008 Danish researchers first revealed the sequence of events when oxygen and hydrogen combine on the surface of titanium dioxide ( TiO < sub > 2 </ sub >, or titania ) to produce water.

In the Clean Development Mechanism, only afforestation and reforestation are eligible to produce certified emission reductions ( CERs ) in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ( 2008 – 2012 ).

In the first quarter of 2008, CRTs retook the # 2 technology position in North America from plasma, due to the decline and consolidation of plasma display manufacturers.

A notable publication is Kris Dhillon's book The Curry Secret, which was first published in 1989 but has been reprinted as recently as 2008.

After finishing the 2006 and 2007 seasons with records of 8 – 8 and 7 – 9, respectively, the Panthers rebounded in the 2008 season, finishing the season with a 12 – 4 record, claiming the NFC South title and a first round bye in the playoffs.

It has been reported that at the 2008 Joint Propulsion Conference, where future space propulsion challenges were discussed and debated, a conclusion was reached that it was improbable that humans would ever explore beyond the Solar System.

The 2008 Pixar film WALL-E contains a subplot in which a generation ship containing humans returns to Earth after many centuries.

Starting about 16, 000 years ago, coinciding with the end of the last glacial period and the arrival of humans in North America, most of the large mammals upon which the dire wolf depended for prey began to die out ( possibly as a result of climate and / or human-induced changes as suggested in a 2008 National Geographic Channel documentary ).

A further 2007 working paper by the same authors ( now published in the September 2008 issue of American Economic Review ) experimentally demonstrated the existence of Giffen goods among humans at the household level by directly subsidizing purchases of rice and wheat flour for extremely poor families.

The third game, Hunter: The Vigil, was released in 2008, dealing with humans who decide to confront the supernatural.

As of April 2008, the city has an estimated population of 93, 882 and a density of 195 humans per km².

In recent times, animals such as mice have been used to detect impurities in food to be consumed by humans, such as during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

As of June 2008, there are only five studies of anogenital distance in humans, and one researcher has stated " Whether AGD measures in humans relate to clinically important outcomes, however, remains to be determined, as does its utility as a measure of androgen action in epidemiologic studies.

In August 2008 Foreign Minister Rais Yatim said Malaysia considered that the maritime feature did not meet internationally recognised criteria for an island, that is, land inhabited by humans that had economic activity.

Most sociologists recognize that proximal causality is the first type of power humans experience ; however, while factors such as family relationships may initially be meaningful, they are not as permanent, underlying, or determining as other factors such as institutions and social networks ( Naiman 2008: 5 ).

Louden Noxious announcing at a Chikara ( professional wrestling ) | Chikara event in 2008. These are the humans who are a part of Kaiju Big Battel but do not ( typically ) fight.

The 2008 Pixar film WALL-E depicts docile humans with what appears to be a post-scarcity dystopia, albeit humorously imagined.

* Vampire Knight ( 2008 )-A Japanese romance / anime about a school for vampires and humans.

A study of Population Genetics of Finno-Ugric speaking humans in North Eurasia carried out between 2002 – 2008 in the Department of Forensic Medicine at the University of Helsinki showed most of the Finno-Ugric speaking populations possess amalgamation of West and East Eurasian gene pools supporting the idea of mixed origins in these populations.

Two Pacific Ocean populations are known to exist: one of not more than 130 individuals ( according to the most recent population assessment in 2008 ) whose migratory route is presumed to be between the Sea of Okhotsk and southern Korea, and a larger one with a population between 20, 000 and 22, 000 individuals in the eastern Pacific travelling between the waters off Alaska and Baja California Sur.

If travelling independently without using an agency, since 2008 it is required to apply for a special borderzone permit in order to be allowed into the area.

A travelling exhibition of 20 coloured replicas of Greek and Roman works, alongside 35 original statues and reliefs, was held in Europe and the United States in 2008: Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity.

On 18 February 2008, Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Matin and one of his sub-commanders, Mullah Karim Agha, were travelling through the desert on motorbikes when they were ambushed and killed by an SBS unit dropped into his path by helicopter.

* In July 2008 anti-terror police held a 12-year-old autistic boy with cerebral palsy and his parents whilst travelling on the Eurotunnel Shuttle rail service under Section 7 of the Terrorism Act.

On 25 October 2008, at 06: 00 GMT, Feeder, a British rock band, were travelling from Glasgow to Lincoln having played a concert at the Glasgow Barrowlands the night before.

In 2008, East Midlands Trains revealed its intention to restrict access to parts of the station by installing ticket barriers to try to prevent passengers from travelling without a ticket.

An exhibition of his work was held at the Yale Center for British Art in the USA in 2008, travelling to Birmingham in 2009.

In a surprise career move, despite their strong position and likelihood of promotion, Wise left Leeds in January 2008 to join the newly reshaped management team at Newcastle United in an executive role, tasked with travelling around Europe and further afield identifying young players and developing the academy.

A total of 141 million trips were taken in 2002 & 2003, rising to nearly 150 million in 2004 and in 2007 & 2008 over 158. 3 million trips were taken on trams in Melbourne with trams travelling more than 24. 8 million kilometres each year on timetabled services.

On 11 November 2008 ( starting at 11am ), humourist Jon Bounds spent eleven hours travelling the route, documenting his journey online, using Twitter, Facebook and a blog, elevenbus. co. uk.

In March 2008 the 401 shuttle bus service commenced operations from North Melbourne station to the Royal Melbourne Hospital and University of Melbourne in Carlton and Parkville, enabling commuters to avoid travelling though the city loop.

In 2008 Bassie taped an insurance commercial about a family travelling to a camping site in France.

In June 2008, in order to meet the needs of the Beijing Olympic Games, bilingual signs were created at the Beijing Railway Station to facilitate an overall increase in foreign tourists travelling to the games, in addition to putting up the " Beijing Railway Station ", several other signs were also erected at station entrances, exits and ticket booths 。

* On 19 May 2008 a train hauled by No. 4 Loch, travelling towards Port Erin, was involved in a collision with a van at Port Soderick railway station.

A C2 class tram travelling along La Trobe Street, Melbourne | La Trobe Street, C2's have serviced the route since 2008

LifeSong is a travelling music group that began in 2008, traveling as representatives of Trinity Baptist College and performing at various churches, schools, student ministries, and youth rallies across the United States.

England once again competed in the 2008 World Cup, this time travelling to Australia to do so.

As of 17 November 2008, 22 soldiers had been killed while travelling in Warrior IFVs in Afghanistan or Iraq.

" The Foundation has been instrumental in organizing the Saul Steinberg: Illuminations travelling exhibition, which will display original Steinberg works at various museum and galleries around the world, including Cartier-Bresson, Paris ( May 6-July 27, 2008 ), Kunsthaus Zürich ( August 22-November 2, 2008 ), Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, ( November 26, 2008-February 15, 2009 ) and Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, ( March 13-June 1, 2009 ).

The BAU in 2008 formed an alliance with the Lyngby BK Ultras of Denmark with its members attending travelling to Denmark to attend Lyngby BK games every season and vice versa.

On August 7, 2008, Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, already in the midst of pending felony charges, was jailed for violating his bail conditions after travelling to Windsor on July 23 for a meeting with Francis regarding a proposed deal pertaining to the Detroit – Windsor Tunnel, which would have seen the city of Windsor take over operational control of the tunnel in exchange for a $ 75 million loan to the cash-strapped city of Detroit.

In 2008, The Milwaukee Men's Junior B travelling team repeated as NAGAA Champions and will move up to Junior A in 2009.